Monthly Archives: May 2013

Movie Preview: Romance gets a do-over in “About Time”

Domhnall Gleeson gets advice to the lovelorn from Bill Nighy. And Rachel McAdams is the object of that love in this new Richard Curtis romance. Cute, a little sexy, a lot of Richard Curtis. Rachel McAdams adores love stories with … Continue reading

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More movies on the radio: Teasing “Trek” a bit on “Unsportsmanlike Conduct”

Chatting about movies on yet another radio show this afternoon — 1620 AM The Zone’s afternoon drive show “Unsportsmanlike Conduct” at 410 pm local time, 510 Eastern. Or listen live here.     We’ll talk “ Star Trek Into Darkness” … Continue reading

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Movies on the Radio: Talking “Trek” and “Iceman” and…”Blazing Saddles”?

It’s Friday, which means a conversation with The Bulldog over at 740 The Game, talking new movies and whatever other pop culture ephemera comes to mind. For a sports guy, Mike Bianchi sure does like to sing. All those nights … Continue reading

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Uma Thurman IS…Anita Bryant?

When you have folks behind “Sex and the City” and “Common Threads: Stories from the (AIDS) Quilt” and “The Life and Times of Harvey Milk,” how do you think beauty queen turned orange juice spokesmodel turned avenging anti-gay harpy Anita … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: “Fruitvale Station,” a Sundance winner

This account of an infamous San Francisco BART shooting is a look into the life of a victim, just a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. With the wrong color skin.

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“Riddick,” the first full trailer is dark…

But is it dark enough? That’s what gave “Pitch Black” its appeal, and this looks more like “Chronicles of Riddick,” at least in terms of color palette, etc. We’re seeing an awful lot, and what you can’t see is a … Continue reading

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Next interviews: Got questions for Joss Whedon? And Nathan Fillion?

Yeah, I’ve seen “Much Ado About Nothing,” and that’s primarily what we’ll be talking about. Joss shot it, in black and white, at his house. Which is big and rambling, but not ostentatious. Very homey. And Nathan plays Dogberry, the … Continue reading

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Tonight’s Screening, “Fast and Furious 6”

Lots of new metal and vintage motors featured in this, the final trailer for the sixth film in this car-crazed series. A ’70s vintage British Ford Escort, what looks like a Plymouth Superbird or whatever they called that rear-wing Road … Continue reading

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Sarah Polley talks about what she expected to find in “Stories We Tell”

Few personal documentaries can boast of the sort of notices the Canadian actress/director Sarah Polley has earned for her film, “Stories We Tell.” This dissection of her family history — her actor father, the actress/casting director who died when Sarah … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Erased”

Just once, it’d be nice if the couple fleeing from a trigger-happy hit man through, say, a crowded hospital, would yell out — “Run for your lives!” And if the hospital’s in Belgium, say,it’d be nice for them to yell … Continue reading

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